Main reading room of the Lavoisier Library. The library contains 55,000 volumes and is staffed and equipped to render the research men a great variety of services in the field of scientific literature. Paint at left is of Lavoisier, the great...

A corner of the magazine rack in the Lavoisier Library at the DuPont Company's Experimental Station shows just a portion of the hundreds of current technical journals available for reference. In addition, this library has more than 55,000...

Text from back of image: 'Among his first official visit in Mexico City on the day after he landed there from Washington, Col. Lindbergh inaugurated the Lincoln Library in Mexico City, donated by the American colony to the city. (Photo shows Col....

Text from back of image: 'Among his first official visit in Mexico City on the day after he landed there from Washington, Col. Lindbergh inaugurated the Lincoln Library in Mexico City, donated by the American colony to the city. (Photo shows...

Eleuthere Irenee du Pont as a young man receiving instruction from Lavoisier, 'father of modern chemistry'. This new painting by F.W. Wright hangs in the Lavoisier Library at the DuPont Company's Experimental Station at Wilmington, Delaware.

These girls are technical linguists employed at the DuPont Company's Experimental Station near Wilmington, Delaware. Their job is to translate from the numerous technical journals received by the Lavoisier Library from all over the world. Between...

Mrs. Virginia Duncan, librarian at the DuPont Company Lavoisier Library, examines a collection of ancient books written by Lavoisier, known as the 'father of modern chemistry'. Mrs. Duncan spent 18 months accumulating this group of the great...

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